Route Manager Guildford, England
Job description
National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Route Manager to join our regional programme team, where the postholder/successful candidate will support us in developing commercially viable forward programmes and solutions for the region’s strategic roads, making effective use of intelligence and insight and making sure our work supports the delivery of the Region’s goals.
This position will be based in Guildford, Basingstoke or Maidstone.
What you’ll be leading on
- Identifying and assessing route and network needs and priorities (informed by insight into customer, economic, social and asset needs.) to help us develop future asset and delivery plans.
- Supporting RIS 2 development with contributions to an evidence base for our route strategies and long term programmes , liaising with internal and external stakeholders to validate proposals and ensure that planned works contribute to improving customer experience, safety and wellbeing and overall network performance in the region.
- Develop and maintain effective and collaborative relationships with customers and stakeholders and; act as point of contact for network development needs and emerging schemes.
- Develop business cases and manage, the prioritisation of investment works for the route(s) in scope in line with needs, agreed strategy, policies, budget, and efficiency targets.
- Initiating requests for studies, and oversee the development of solutions, ensuring new investment ideas are supported by robust business cases.
To be successful
- Experience of developing business cases and asset management plans, including the management and development of budgets
- Strong commercial and financial acumen
- Asset management decision making (capital investment, lifecycle costs, value optimisation, service & availability optimisation, social & economic knowledge)
- Demonstrable experience in the application of asset management principles and the development of integrated asset management plans
- Strong stakeholder management.
A bit about us
Making sure our customers have safe and reliable journeys is at the heart of everything we do in Operations. We keep the roads open for business and play a key role in making sure the network we manage is fit for purpose today and for the future.
Want to know more?
For a copy of the Job Description please contact [email protected] quoting reference 3610
